{"id":16229,"date":"2007-12-27T07:13:53","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T14:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/12\/27\/chinese-town-where-old-presents-go-to-die-richard-spencer\/"},"modified":"2007-12-27T07:13:53","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T14:13:53","slug":"chinese-town-where-old-presents-go-to-die-richard-spencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/12\/chinese-town-where-old-presents-go-to-die-richard-spencer\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Town Where Old Presents Go To Die &#8211; Richard Spencer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another chapter in the Guiyu e-waste story, this time from Daily Telegraph with a holiday twist:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Chinese town of <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/tag\/Guiyu\">Guiyu<\/a> is the graveyard of Christmas past.<\/p>\n<p>It is where presents &#8211; game consoles, laptops, mobile phones &#8211; come to die.<\/p>\n<p>It is also where they are reborn. In this giant scrap-yard, so dangerously polluted that its children are being clinically poisoned, the electronic objects of desire, a million tons of them a year, are broken apart, melted down, and washed in acid to be recycled into a new flood of imports for Christmas future.<\/p>\n<p>Now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environment-agency.gov.uk\/\">British Environmental Agency<\/a> says that despite a ban on exports of electronic waste to China, unscrupulous middle men are using a loophole in the law intended to encourage recycling to dump more goods in places like Guiyu, where labour costs are low and environmental controls weak. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/earth\/main.jhtml?xml=\/earth\/2007\/12\/27\/eaguiyu127.xml\">[Full Text]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/11\/electronic_waste_documentary_preview_michael_zhao.php\">the documentary by CDT&#8217;s own Michael Zhao<\/a> that helped reignite interest in the China e-waste problem last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another chapter in the Guiyu e-waste story, this time from Daily Telegraph with a holiday twist: The Chinese town of Guiyu is the graveyard of Christmas past. 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In this giant scrap-yard, so dangerously polluted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,132],"tags":[2909,4372],"class_list":["post-16229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-environmental-crisis","tag-e-waste","tag-guiyu","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chinese Town Where Old Presents Go To Die - Richard Spencer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/12\/chinese-town-where-old-presents-go-to-die-richard-spencer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chinese Town Where Old Presents Go To Die - Richard Spencer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Another chapter in the Guiyu e-waste story, this time from Daily Telegraph with a holiday twist: The Chinese town of Guiyu is the graveyard of Christmas past. 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